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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1860–1950)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Sir Richard Stuart Lake
| honorific-suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KCMG|size=100%}}
| image               = Robert Stuart Lake.jpg
| order1              = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]] for [[Grenfell (N.W.T. electoral district)|Grenfell]]
| predecessor1        = ''District established''
| successor1          = ''Himself''
| term_start1         = November 4, 1898
| term_end1           = October 9, 1900
| predecessor2        = ''Himself''
| successor2          = ''District abolished''
| term_start2         = March 22, 1901
| term_end2           = November 3, 1904
| constituency_MP3    = [[Regina—Qu'Appelle|Qu'Appelle]]
| parliament3         = Canadian
| predecessor3        = ''Riding established''
| successor3          = [[Levi Thomson]]
| term_start3         = November 3, 1904
| term_end3           = September 21, 1911
| office4             = Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
| order4              = 3rd
| predecessor4        = [[George W. Brown (Saskatchewan politician)|George W. Brown]]
| successor4          = [[Henry William Newlands]]
| term_start4         = October 6, 1915
| term_end4           = February 17, 1921
| monarch4            = [[George V]]
| governor_general4   = [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn|The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]]<br />[[Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire|The Duke of Devonshire]]
| premier4            = [[Thomas Walter Scott]]<br />[[William Melville Martin]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1860|7|10}}
| birth_place         = [[Preston, Lancashire]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1950|4|23|1860|7|10}}
| death_place         = [[Victoria, British Columbia]], Canada
| nationality         = 
| spouse              = Dorothy Marion Schreiber Fletcher
| party               = [[Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)|Conservative]]
| relatives           = [[Percy Lake]] (brother)
| children            = 
| residence           = 
| alma_mater          = 
| occupation          = 
| profession          = 
}}

'''Sir Richard Stuart Lake''', {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KCMG|size=100}} (July 10, 1860 &ndash; April 23, 1950) was an English-born Canadian territorial provincial and federal level politician from [[Saskatchewan]], Canada.

==Territorial politics==
Born in [[Preston, Lancashire]], [[England]], Lake was elected to the [[Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories]] for the [[Grenfell (N.W.T. electoral district)|Grenfell]] district in the [[1898 Northwest Territories general election]]. In 1900 he vacated his seat to run in [[Assiniboia East]] in the [[1900 Canadian federal election]].

After being defeated in his first attempt at federal politics he ran for his old seat and was re-elected as the MLA in a by-election on March 22, 1901.

Lake was acclaimed to his second term in office in the [[1902 Northwest Territories general election]]. He held that post until the [[1904 Canadian federal election]] when he vacated his seat to make a second run at Federal politics.

==Federal politics==
[[Image:Richard Stuart Lake.jpg|thumb|The Hon. Richard Stuart Lake]]
Lake was elected as a Member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in his second run at Federal politics in the [[1904 Canadian federal election]] in the new Qu'Appelle federal electoral district.

He was re-elected to a second term in the [[1908 Canadian federal election]] winning a hotly contested election by just a 100 votes.

In the [[1911 Canadian federal election]] he was defeated by [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] [[Levi Thomson]] and never returned to federal politics.

==Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan==
After being defeated in the Federal election, Lake went to work for the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission, he held that job until he was appointed as the third [[lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan]] on October 18, 1915. He served for six years, until February 17, 1921, when he was offered the possibility of extending his royal commission; however, he refused.

==Late life==
He moved to [[Victoria, British Columbia]] after his career in politics and lived the rest of his life there.

He and his wife, Dorothy, were aboard the [[SS Athenia (1922)|SS ''Athenia'']] when it was torpedoed on September 3, 1939 and survived.

He died on April 23, 1950.

== Electoral record ==
{{1911 Canadian federal election/Qu'Appelle}}
{{1908 Canadian federal election/Qu'Appelle}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060113073236/http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> Archives of the Northwest Territories Legislature 1876 - 1905]
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=12016}}
*[http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/lake_sir_richard_stuart_1860-1950.html Biography Richard Stuart Lake Saskatchewan Encyclopedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130101120455/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/lake_sir_richard_stuart_1860-1950.html |date=1 January 2013 }}

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